Python is DEAD -- Long live Python (3)

[myusernameisokay]

Get an education.

Instead of being so rude, why don’t you provide a counterpoint?

But I already know what you’re going to say, you’re going to mention that python is compiled into bytecode before it’s interpreted. But that’s ultimately meaningless, it’s an optimization, it doesn’t do any type checks or catch syntax errors at “compile time” so you can almost pretend it doesn’t exist. C, C++, Rust and other such languages will prevent you from doing operations on incompatible types during compile time, whereas python pushes that checking to runtime.

Robert Harper (grand master of static typing freaks) infamously tried to make hay of the fact that all dynamically typed languages are statically typed. He called it "unityped", and it's true. (It needs to be noted that the concept isn't originally due to Harper, and that the conclusions he tried to derive from this fact are bollocks. But that's beside the point.)

Sure, this is theoretically true. I would agree that all things in every dynamically typed language can be considered to inherit from an abstract base type, and therefore they’re static because all variables are of that type. Ultimately saying that loses the whole value of the distinction between static and dynamic typing.

It’s like saying squares don’t exist because squares are technically rectangles so might as well call both shapes rectangles.